cPanel Overview
Overview
The cPanel interface is the hub of your cPanel user account and provides you with access to important information and updates. The Tools page is the default home page.
The cPanel interface consists of the following sections:
Note:
Your hosting provider’s server profile may disable certain features in the cPanel interface. For more information, read our How to Use Server Profiles documentation.
Click the icon to display your account-level cPanel Analytics settings. Select Allow Data Collection to enable cPanel Analytics for your account, or select Deny Data Collection to disable it.
cPanel, L.L.C. values your privacy. For more information about how we collect and use cPanel Analytics data, read our cPanel Analytics documentation.
Onboarding Assistant
The Onboarding Assistant only appears for new or updated cPanel account users to welcome the user and offer a starting point to begin using the cPanel interface.
For more information, read our Onboarding Assistant documentation.
Navigation bar
Every interface in cPanel displays the navigation bar. The navigation bar provides the currently-active account information, the search bar, and controls that allow you to change settings and log out of your account.
Use the Search text box to quickly find the interfaces that you need.Note:
Use the forward slash (
/
) keyboard shortcut to quickly access the Search Features text box.To reset the cPanel interface, click your username and then click Reset Page Settings in the user menu.
The Main Menu
The Main Menu allows you to navigate to the Tools page from any interface. You can also access the WP Toolkit feature. Every interface in cPanel displays the Main Menu. To return to your default cPanel home page at any time, click the cPanel logo.
The Tools page
Features
The cPanel interface lists of all of your account’s available features in groups for different types of functionality. You can click and drag the feature groups to customize their order.
General Information
The General Information section displays the following information about your cPanel account:
Current User
The name of the current cPanel account. If you are a reseller or a root
user, you can switch between cPanel accounts.
Primary Domain
DV Certificate — A domain-validated certificate.
EV Certificate — An extended-validation certificate.
OV Certificate — An organization-validated certificate.
Self-signed Certificate — A self-signed certificate.
No Valid Certificate — A valid certificate exists, but it does not currently secure the domain. For example, an expired or revoked certificate.
Shared IP Address or Dedicated IP Address
The current account’s shared or dedicated IP address.
A shared IP address means that multiple websites within one server use a single IP address.
A dedicated IP address means that the website possesses its own IP address.
Home Directory
The absolute path to the account’s /home
directory on the server.
Last Login IP Address
The IP address of the user that most recently logged in to the account.
Note:
This IP address is not the currently-authenticated IP address. For example, if you log in via the 10.1.1.1
IP address, and then log in multiple times via the 10.2.2.2
IP address, the interface will display 10.1.1.1
as the Last Login IP address value. It will not display 10.2.2.2
as the Last Login IP address value until you log in through a different IP address.
Theme
The current cPanel theme. If your account includes more than one theme, you can use the menu to search for and switch between cPanel themes.
NGINX Caching
The status of NGINX® caching for the account. This section displays either Active or Inactive, depending on the NGINX caching status.
If your hosting provider allows you to manage whether NGINX uses caching or not, you can set the toggle to either Active or Inactive. If NGINX caching is active for your account, you can also click Clear Cache to clear the NGINX cache.
This category only appears if your hosting provider installed NGINX.
Server Information
Click this link to navigate to cPanel’s Server Information interface (cPanel » Home » Server Information), which displays additional information about the account and its server.
Statistics
The Statistics section displays important usage statistics for your cPanel account. This section displays information about your cPanel account’s resource usage.
Symbols and Buttons
Each statistic may display one of the following:
Statistics Details
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